Environmental Monitoring Report

Project Number: 38301-013 March 2017

PRC: Dryland Sustainable Agriculture Project 2016 Environment Safeguard Progress Report for Component

Prepared by Project Management Office for the Gansu Provincial Government and the Asian Development Bank.

This environmental monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature.

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The Enterprise Environmental Monitoring Report of 2016 Tianshui Gansu ADB Loan Sustainable Rainfed Agriculture Project

I. Monitoring scope 30 project enterprises of 5 counties and 2 districts in Tianshui. II. Monitoring locations 29 agricultural processing enterprises and 1 farmers' market in normal production and operation of the ADB loan sustainable agriculture project. III. Monitoring method and the basis 1. The Regulations on Environmental Protection and Management of Construction Projects ,The 253th order of the State Council 2. Notifications on Issues of Acceptance Monitoring and Management on the Completed Environmental Protection Installation of Construction Project ,The 38th order of the State Environmental Protection Administration file of 2000 3. Management Measures of Acceptance Monitoring on the Construction Completed Project 4. Emission Standard of Noise at Boundary of Industrial Enterprises 5.Emission Standard of Air Pollutants for Boilers 6. Quality Standard for Ground Water 7. Quality Standard for Surface Water 8. Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Livestock and Poultry Breeding Cooperated with the environmental protection departments at various levels of environmental monitoring, districts and counties in two levels of the ADB loan project management departments and the project owner regularly or irregularly monitoring. IV. Monitoring indexes Waste water, Exhaust gas, Noise, Waste V. Monitoring result 1. Ambient air quality The overall level of Tianshui ambient air quality was good in 2016. The average pollution index was 61, and the number of days air reached to the level good was 340, accounting for 95% of the total number of days all the year round. The three project main pollutants—particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide had fulfil the requirements of national standard. The enterprises under project monitoring were all livestock breeding, fruit storage and selling, preliminary agricultural products processing and other enterprises of agricultural processing, which did not produce waste gas basically. Some enterprises adopted environmental protection boiler of dust, thus did no damage to the environment even during the heating season, and it has no effect on air quality. sheet 1 The index of major pollutants in Tianshui

sulfur dioxide nitrogen dioxide inhalable particle Area contamination air contamination air quality contamination air quality index quality index index

Qinzhou <50 great <50 great 58 good district Maiji district <50 great <50 great 66 good Qinan county <50 great <50 great 76 good Qingshui <50 great <50 great 70 good county Gangu county <50 great <50 great 75 good

Wushan <50 great <50 great 73 good county Zhangjiachuan <50 great <50 great 74 good county

2.Water environmental quality Due to the lack of rain, the river flow was small, dilute self-purification capacity was limited in winter and spring, the water quality was poor in the whole city. However, water quality all conformed to the class III standard in other seasons. Tanshui Xingyuan food co., LTD,Tianshui Changsheng food co., LTD, Tianshui Xilian bee industry co., LTD, Tianshui Kangsheng food co., LTD all discharged sewage according to the national standard, the other enterprises discharged no sewage basically. So the project enterprises caused no environment quality pollution in the local area. 3.Noise environment quality The project enterprises did not affect the noise environment quality, therefore had no harmful effect in local area. 4.Solid waste Chicken manure after disposal from Tianshui Jiulongshan Poultry Industry Co. , LTD. , along with cow dung from Tianshui Jiaxin Livestock Co. , LTD. and mushroom dreg from Tianshui Zhongxing Flora Co., LTD. were all processed into organic fertilizer after acquisition. The excrements of livestocks from other project enterprises turned into high quality fertilizer which could be sold to the local farmers, often in short supply for the local agricultural production. The slag produced by the enterprises’ boilers collected and recycled by construction companies to use as construction materials. 5.All of the animal husbandry enterprises adopted feces harmless treatment.

6. All of the project enterprises’ gas boilers have been reformed, especially the boilers in have changed into natural gas boilers.

Tianshui Asian Development Bank Loan Project Management Office March 3, 2017